Alex Harris · 242 pages
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“Courage is not the absence of fear. It is rather not letting your fear control your actions”
“The teen years are not a vacation from responsibility,” we had told the columnist. “They are the training ground of future leaders who dare to be responsible”
“What is possible when a generation stops assuming that someone else will take care of the brokenness in the world - or that someone else will capitalize on current opportunities - and realizes that they are called to take action?”
“Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.”
“Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity” (NIV).”
“It all boils down to a principle at the heart of Christian character: we have to care more about pleasing God than we care about pleasing man.”
“It’s about an idea. It’s about rebelling against low expectations. It’s about a movement that is changing the attitudes and actions of teens around the world. And we want you to be part of it.”
“Our uprising is against a cultural mind-set that twists the purpose and potential of the teen years and threatens to cripple our generation. Our uprising won’t be marked by mass riots and violence, but by millions of individual teens quietly choosing to turn the low expectations of our culture upside down.”
“For all of us, expectations are a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
“God calls us to be examples. Where our culture might expect little, God expects great things.”
“Jesus said that it doesn’t matter if you have the admiration of the world if you lose your soul,”
“the modern concept of adolescence is not a biological stage, but a cultural mind-set. It doesn’t stop when you graduate from high school, or when you turn twenty-one.”
“Do Hard Things will help recruit, develop, and deploy a new generation of young culture warriors.”
“Working on the campaigns taught us that never trying is a lot worse than losing.”
“the three pillars of the Rebelution: character, competence, and collaboration”
“And it’s not just in America. Countries around the world have developed names for young “adults”
“Isn’t that exactly what has happened? Entire industries—movie, music, fashion, fast food—and countless online services revolve around the consumer habits of, you guessed it, teens. With all this money and attention focused on teens, the teen years are viewed as some sort of vacation.”
“We’re passionate about these causes because God has placed them on our hearts.”
“For great is your steadfast love toward me; you have e delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.”
“valuing the condition of having options over the quality of the options can sometimes lead to decisions that don’t serve us well.”
“You were a city exiled from skin, your mouth a burning church.”
“A Hasidic teaching says, "If your child has a talent to be a baker, don't tell him to be a doctor." Judaism holds that every child is made in the divine image. When we ignore a child's intrinsic strengths in an effort to push him toward our notion of extraordinary achievement, we are undermining God's plan.”
“Another round later and I was undeniably drunk. I could feel my head swimming and was yelling "INK INK THAT'S THE NOISE A SQUID MAKES", while laughing hysterically at myself.”
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